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Payment Sources
We accept most major mental health insurances. Let us help you determine if your insurance covers the services you need.
You may also call your insurance company directly for more information.
We offer a sliding scale fee for cash pay clients.
We serve all Medicaid clients
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About Our Agency
Clinical Counseling Services
is a private, community-based, mental health agency comprised of a variety of treatment specialists including licensed counselors who are trained to promote emotional and mental health.
Our services are provided to individuals, couples and families. We treat a variety of emotional and behavioral issues such as mood disorders, depression, anxiety, PTSD, anger management, grief and many others.
Our Goals
Our services are designed to provide assistance to individuals and families who are affected by mental illness, emotional or behavioral issues. We assist individuals and families in promoting emotional growth and mental well-being.
Each individual is unique and can expect an individualized approach to treatment. We assist in identifying each client's unique strengths in order to manage their symptoms and achieve their highest level of functioning.
Our Services
Our agency provides counseling to individuals, couples and families in both in office and in home settings. Services are provided by fully licensed therapists.
What is psychotherapy
Psychotherapy refers to a range of treatments that can help with mental health problems, emotional challenges, and some psychiatric disorders. It aims to provide insight to clients in order to understand their feelings. It promotes an understanding of what makes them feel positive, anxious, or depressed. This enables clients to learn to cope with difficult situations in a more adaptive way.
There are several approaches in psychotherapy.
Behavioral therapy
Behavioral therapy helps clients gain insight into how their behavior influences the way they feel and focuses on increasing a person’s engagement in positive or socially reinforcing activities.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) pairs cognitive with behavioral therapy, to address both thoughts and behaviors.
Cognitive therapy
Cognitive therapy is focused on “cognition” or “thoughts”. It starts with the idea that what we think shapes how we feel. Cognitive therapy challenges the beliefs a person has about a situation in order to alter their emotional state. It looks at present thinking and communication patterns, rather than the past.
Interpersonal therapy
This approach focuses on interpersonal relationships. Symptoms may stem from a person's relationship with others. A client learns skills for improving communication patterns which helps the client to manage the symptoms. The client increases awareness to their approach to interpersonal problems, understand them, and learns to manage them more constructively.
Family therapy
A family therapist looks at symptoms in the family context. Some conditions require the treatment of the family unit. Family therapy generally involves discussion and problem-solving sessions with the client and the family, as a group, in couples, or one-to-one.
Psychodynamic therapy
Psychodynamic therapy, or insight-oriented therapy, focuses on the deep-seated causes of behavior. The aim is to increase self-awareness and understanding of how the past affects present behavior and emotion by gaining an understanding of the source of their emotional distress, usually by exploring motives, needs and defenses that they are not aware of. It can help clients whose symptoms have not been resolved by other forms of psychotherapy.
About our Director
KC West, MSW, LCSW
KC West is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is the Owner and CEO of Clinical Counseling Services—an outpatient, community-based mental health agency—in Las Vegas, Nevada.
KC started her college career attending Utah State University, where she completed her Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Psychology and minor in Family and Human Development.
After completing her Bachelor’s Degree, KC volunteered for one year as an AmeriCorps VISTA, which is a program intended to provide relief to individuals who are impoverished. This volunteer position required that KC take an oath of poverty. Through this first-hand experience, KC was able to learn the struggles individuals encounter while navigating social services systems.
She continued her educational career attending Graduate School at the University of Utah. KC earned her Master of Social Work. KC began her experience providing counseling during her master’s program. KC completed two internship programs; one in the public school system and one in a community mental health agency. KC then went on to complete her licensure as an LCSW.
KC worked for 7 years for the State of Utah in the Department of Human Services in the Child Welfare system. During this time, KC won the Richard Anderson Child Welfare Award for her devoted work to children and families in the community.
Later, KC relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada; where she continued her career in social work. KC worked in home hospice and later took a position at a psychiatric hospital. KC developed programs for the adolescent unit in the psychiatric hospital, and later accepted a position as the Program Coordinator working for outpatient services for the psychiatric hospital. Outpatient services was a program which transitioned individuals from the inpatient setting back into the community through intensive outpatient services. KC had the opportunity to develop outpatient programming as well as being the direct provider for services.
KC then started her journey toward private practice. She worked as a contractor for a community based outpatient agency while developing her private practice. She learned that there is such a demand for mental health services in Las Vegas, KC was inspired to open her own outpatient mental health agency—Clinical Counseling Services.